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  8 0 The Joy of Gay Sex Andy answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Always bring your towel, and the answer is 42. beelzebufo answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Little Women I read it very early on and have re-read it many times and will continue to do so. It launched and/or nurtured my fascination with history, literature, writing, war, class struggles, and various American Transcendentalists. (Pretty much exactly what I went on to study all through school.) Renée answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather. It calms me down and humbles me. RM answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 The Joy of Sex Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*but were Too Afraid to Ask) by Dr. Rubin Our Bodies, Our Selves by women's Collectives, etc O my captain answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by dana.… 0 0 i have a copy of everything you wanted to know about sex..... that i came upon thrifting a few years ago. still my favorite find of all time. dana. commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Forever Amber. Really. I read it because it was considered racy (it was banned in several cities), but the historical details are impeccable (had she chosen to footnote it and provide a bibliography, said bibiography would have run into the hundreds of books - Kathleen Winsor was an obsessive researcher). The book sparked a lifelong interest in history, which was something no history class in school ever managed to do. So when I met my husband, who proudly bears the title of God's Own History Bore inherited from George MacDonald Fraser, we actually had things to talk about. Geni answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 I love this question, even though I find it impossible to answer. How about a top 5? Pippi Longstocking Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass The Diary of Anais Nin Margaret Drabble's novels, all of them The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism Okay, that's more than five, but these are the ones that made me who I am. Irena answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 1 The Joy of Cooking Marty Unger answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. As lame as it might sound, that book affected me more as a child than anything else I can remember. Nowadays I'm more influenced by film. Lukeiscool answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Cities of the Red Night. As far removed as it is from reality, it completely opened me up to the world. Jim answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Good question! I'll have to pick two since they are so different and yet both profoundly influenced my current outlook on life. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Illusions by Richard Bach Bunzerelli answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 Lord of the Rings. Sorry, I know I'm tragic. But it (and the other 2) started my life long delusion that good will triumph over evil (in spite of all the evidence to the contrary) and and that I should hold out for a guy as perfect as Aragorn (in spite of all the evidence to the contrary). ozchick answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 Man, it's hard to pick one, but l'll go with The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis. l was a pretty impressionable kid, and even though my parents were Methodists, they sent me to nothing but Catholic and fundamentalist schools growing up, which really messed with my personal sense of ethics, particularly the dogmatic aspects of these religions. The Last Temptation first expanded my views of Christianity, then when l abandoned the religion entirely, probably prevented me from leaving with hard feelings, and with a healthier view than l might have otherwise had. freikja answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 The Voyage of the Beagle. Charles Darwin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Beagle I read it when I was very young and it was both a great adventure story and an introduction to science and evolutionary theory. Charles B answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 2 Do essays count? "Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/barthes06.htm "The Nature of Gothic" by John Ruskin http://www47.homepage.villanova.edu/seth.koven/gothic.html protosaurus answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 13 No one book, but books collectively have greatly influenced my life. Kristin Bell answered in Books & Writing over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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